Luxembourg – "The Angular Distance of a Celestial Body" by Alessandro Carboni
Alessandro Carboni is guest of the TROIS C-L – Centre de Création Chorégraphique Luxembourgeois, the leading organization for contemporary dance in Luxembourg.
The artist, who has developed an interdisciplinary practice (visual art, creative media, performing arts), uses the stage space as a projection plane from which he brings out reflections and critical issues related to the contemporary world.
The performance presented on April 9 (at 07:00 p.m.), The Angular Distance of a Celestial Body, is a transversal reflection on the cartographic process, which is seen as "a reduced representation of the Earth’s surface and the events that occur on it".
To reclaim the complexity of the world, Alessandro Carboni replaces the graphic signs used on maps with the body. On the stage, a geometric structure on the floor is counterposed by two symmetrical bodies disguised in a montage of carnival inspired costumes. The actions of these figures lead, and are followed, by the soundscape, while they pull cotton threads into ever new geometric positions with slow, ritual-looking gestures.
The contrast between the horizontal "tension" and the bodies’ vertical one symbolizes the constant aim for an ideal control of the world and its actual impracticability. The “fragmented” costumes wrapping the bodies hint at the chaos that rules our world and the lack of continuity between the objects.
The performance was selected by Aerowaves Twenty20, the network which each year selects twenty of the most promising emerging choreographers in Europe.
Alessandro Carboni is one of the artists supported by TIR Danza, production organization sustained by the Emilia-Romagna Region Culture Dept and the Italian Ministry of Culture. The tour is made with the co-operation of ATER Fondazione.
TROIS C-L – Centre de Création Chorégraphique Luxembourgeois
